* Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > i've noticed an problem with conversion from real to float -
> > this produces ugly values. (in fact it seems to be real->float8)
>
> You do realize that float4/real is only good to six decimal places
> on most
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 01:02:50AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> You do realize that float4/real is only good to six decimal
> >> places on most platforms?
>
> > and importantly, are stored as binary fractions. 0.1 decimal
> > is a
